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ἐδεήθη (edeethe)

ἐδεήθη is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist passive indicative.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.22: Ἀποδημίας δὲ οὐκ ἐδεήθη, καθάπερ οἱ πλείους, πλὴν εἰ μὴ στρατεύεσθαι ἔδει. τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν αὐτόθι μένων φιλονεικότερον συνεζήτει τοῖς πρ …

All forms of δέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.